{"id":8598,"date":"2016-07-28T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cemeterydanceonline.com\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2016-07-28T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:00:50","slug":"review-puppet-skin-by-danger-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/review-puppet-skin-by-danger-slater\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: ‘Puppet Skin’ by Danger Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PuppetSkin\"Puppet Skin<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Danger Slater<\/strong><\/a>
\nFungasm Press\u00a0(July 2016)<\/strong>
\n126\u00a0pages; $8.95\u00a0paperback; $4.95 e-book<\/strong>
\nReviewed by Blu Gilliand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adolescence is its own kind of horror show, as anyone that lived\u00a0through it can attest. I’m quite a few years removed from it myself,\u00a0but reading Danger Slater’s Puppet Skin<\/em> served as a striking, less-than-fond look back at that time—albeit through a warped and cracked lens.<\/p>\n

Hannah is on the verge of graduation, facing a future that’s long been
\ndefined for her, and she’s not exactly happy about it. While most of\u00a0her classmates anticipate the day with either anxiousness or\u00a0indifference, Hannah’s instinct is to backpedal and ask questions about\u00a0the future that keep her parents and teachers constantly on edge.<\/p>\n

I know when I was on the verge of adulthood, I shared many of the same
\nfears Hannah feels in this situation, particularly an impending loss of\u00a0identity and self. Adulthood was when it became mandatory to “grow up”\u00a0and prepare for a career. What that meant to me was that it would soon\u00a0be time to take the independence I’d fought so hard to earn from my\u00a0parents and hand it over to complete strangers—college professors and\u00a0advisors first, followed soon enough by a boss. I didn’t love the idea\u00a0of my life and my future being in someone else’s hands.<\/p>\n

Metaphorically, I thought I was about to become someone else’s puppet.\u00a0In Puppet Skin<\/em>, that’s the literal future Hannah faces. For her and her\u00a0peers, graduation day is not about turning tassels and receiving a
\ndiploma; it’s about going into a dark room, having your humanity and\u00a0individuality scooped out, and emerging as an actual puppet, complete\u00a0with strings coming down from the sky.<\/p>\n

That Slater has taken such a potentially ridiculous concept and turned\u00a0it into such a resonant piece of fiction is a tribute to the man’s\u00a0talent. The character of Hannah, in particular, is quite an achievement; she could easily have come across as whiny and\u00a0unsympathetic, but Slater smartly reveals the vulnerable heart that\u00a0drives her. It’s not brashness or brattiness that fuels Hannah’s\u00a0behavior, it’s fear—and the courage to voice that fear when those\u00a0around her are content to simply fall in line.<\/p>\n

At turns touching, funny, scary, and downright gross, Puppet Skin<\/em> fully\u00a0utilizes the horror genre’s unique ability to simultaneously entertain,\u00a0confound, and illuminate. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Puppet Skin\u00a0by\u00a0Danger Slater Fungasm Press\u00a0(July 2016) 126\u00a0pages; $8.95\u00a0paperback; $4.95 e-book Reviewed by Blu Gilliand Adolescence is its own kind of horror show, as anyone that lived\u00a0through it can attest. I’m quite a few years removed from it myself,\u00a0but reading Danger Slater’s Puppet Skin served as a striking, less-than-fond look back at that time—albeit through a … Continue Reading! “Review: ‘Puppet Skin’ by Danger Slater”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80],"tags":[572,42,786,787,79],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-danger-slater","tag-featured","tag-fungasm-press","tag-puppet-skin","tag-reviews"],"yoast_head":"\nReview: 'Puppet Skin' by Danger Slater - 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